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The Associate Director leads vendor partnerships and production schedules to maximize profitability and deliver on time. S/he builds a production plan for materials and finished goods and drives long-term investment goals and opportunities. As an expert in efficient manufacturing processes, the Associate Director supports both Product Development and supplier partners to craft and deliver cost effective and brand right solutions.
The Associate Director manages the regional teams in Sourcing and Logistics. S/he leads research and implementation of Earthwise material strategy to deliver long term improvements in sustainable sourcing.
Your career path has many avenues available for you to succeed. Are you looking to advance at a rate that matches your ambition and skill set? At Bunzl, we understand and want to invest in you. With our multi-career options, you’ll not only be able to find the adventure you are looking for today, but can be confident that new opportunities will be there for advancement in your future.
At Bunzl, we know that our employees are our number one asset. We seek to recruit and retain the right people who are passionate about our business and we provide opportunities for our employees so that they may progress within our company based on their talents, experiences, and their aptitude.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver Annual Sourcing Strategy against Budget and margin objectives
- Direct capacity planning with suppliers; evaluate monthly actual to plan results
- Source suppliers to maximize cost, production, lead-time, and aesthetics to deliver product objectives
- Manage Product Development team ensuring technical specifications meet customer and Earthwise standards and costs are delivered to margin expectations
- Partner with Procurement on warehouse assignments and inventory ship plan for stock programs
- Partner with Domestic Logistics operations to report in-transit production delivery dates to customer
- Manage compliance and enforce Bunzl policies and Code of Conduct
- Direct and manage regional teams in the sourcing and logistics of production including freight forwarding, booked containers, and transit.
- On-board Logistics management systems.
- Sets and implements Quality Assurance protocol
- On-board suppliers, audit preparation and review qualifying certifications
- Maintain Vendor Manual and Quality Guide
- Support Procurement team in the placement and planning of Factory Purchase Orders
- Perform cost and Minimum Order Quantity analysis and benchmarking for categories
- Maintain Production Plan: FPO data review, monthly factory plan, schedule of ship dates
- Partner with Logistics team to build container and port plan. Identify monthly averages by Port to achieve Full Container Load strategies including customer programs – FCL, consolidation, acceptable ship dates to customer based on Port strategy
- Directs Production & Logistics teams in Asia: Factory WIP reports, Priority Customer Shipments
- Tracks quality assurance reporting and manages issue resolution
- Perform regular reviews of Supplier KPI’s
- Support New Product Development and growth strategy
Requirements:
- BS degree in supply chain management, logistics or business administration preferred
- Proven experience as a Sourcing Manager
- Expertise in product development and manufacturing
- Effective management and execution of supplier negotiations
- Strong project management and leadership skill
- Analytical; uses data to drive results
- Familiar with Vendor management software, Smartsheet, Excel
So, what are you waiting for? A new career awaits you with endless opportunities.
Bunzl is a global leader in the Cleaning & Hygiene, Food Processing, Grocery, Health Care, Non-Food Retail, and Safety industries. We have grown both organically and through acquisitions to sales in excess of $10 billion. Bunzl North America is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Bunzl North America owns and operates more than 100 warehouses and serves all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. With more than 5,000 employees and 400,000 plus supplies, Bunzl is regarded as a leading supplier in North America.
Bunzl Distribution offers competitive salaries, a comfortable work environment, and a full range of benefits including a 401k with a company match.
Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to attract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status as provided by law.
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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
